Promises from Nick Clegg to be the ‘great reformer’ on constitutional reform, but he fluffed voting reform and his half-baked proposals to reform the House of Lords were scuppered by the Tories he props up.

And let’s not forget this Government’s self-serving and partisan boundary changes.

Call me old-fashioned but I think the voters should decide the outcome of general elections.

Not Tory or Lib Dem party managers gerrymandering constituencies for their own advantage.

Nick Clegg opposing the boundary changes is one promise I hope he does keep.

Because of this Government’s broken promises, progress we made in cutting crime, cutting first-time offending and cutting re-offending are all in jeopardy.

And, you know, Denis Skinner is right – David Cameron does what people like him always do when things go wrong – he sacks the help.

His Justice Secretary? Sacked!

His junior ministers? Sacked!

Will their policies be dumped too?

Perhaps legal aid will be restored for the most vulnerable.

Perhaps the threat of closure hanging over our CABs and law centres will be lifted.

Perhaps cuts to compensation for victims of crime will be abandoned.

But I doubt it.

Instead, David Cameron is doing what a Tory leader does when in trouble: lurching to the right, tough rhetoric, acting all butch.

We can guess what Justice Secretary Chris Grayling will say to the Tory Conference next week.

The same old tired Tory crime and justice speech.

All rhetoric and no action.

No evidence of what actually works.

Re-toxifying the brand, tossing red meat to Tory backbenchers, now in control of this weak Prime Minister.

‘Locking up more criminals for even longer.’

But there’ll be no space to house them because his Government have cancelled prison building and actually closed some prisons.

‘Human Rights are bad because they’re European.’

But Winston Churchill and British lawyers wrote the European Convention on Human Rights, of which Britain should be proud.

Not over-promising, but deliverable policies matching our values of fairness and decency, rooted in evidence of what works, a sign of a true one nation party.

Tough on the causes of crime – enabling government, local authorities, education, housing, health, social services and police to work together for the sake of our communities, rooting out deprivation and inequality.

And tough on crime – catching, punishing and reforming criminals, sending a clear unambiguous message about the wrongs of crime.